On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 23:39 -0700, steve wrote: > > A word boundary usually matches the natural integer size for the > > processor. In the case of a 32 bit processor it would be 32 bits, in the > > case of a 64 bit processor it would be 64 bits. This may or may not hold > > for windows, but more than likely the word size doubles between the 32 > > bit architecture and the 64 bit architecture. As such due to alignment > > we would still see only a maximal doubling of space. Fringe cases may > > exist to satisfy your argument, but I doubt PHP falls into this > > category... especially as relates to a packaged binary or default > > configure. > > I didn't mean for the PHP binary itself, but the PHP code written in > PHP that is parsed: > > $test = true;
But the PHP binary is what allocates the memory. It all comes down to how the PHP binary was compiled. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
